P5622Clinical significance of late-acquired malapposition observed by serial optical coherence tomography after second-generation drug eluting stents
Abstract Background Previous studies have demonstrated that the presence of late-acquired stent malapposition after stent implantation may be a risk of late and very late stent thrombosis and myocardial infarction, which is however still controversial. Purpose We sought to investigate the incidence and prognosis of late acquired stent malapposion after second-generation drug eluting stents (2G-DES) implantation. Methods A total of 199 lesions in 139 patients who underwent optical coherence tomography (OCT) at both immediately after implantation (Baseline) and 6–12 months after 2G-DES implantation (follow-up) were investigated. We excluded lesions with stent failure before follow-up examination. We evaluated presence or absence of malapposed strut at 1mm interval of OCT images and stents with one or more cross-sections with >30% malapposed strut was defined as stents with malapposition (MP), otherwise well-apposed (WA). We divided the lesions into 4 groups according to the presence of malapposition at baseline and follow-up; WA and WA, persistent well-apposed; MP and WA, resoloved malapposition; WA and MP, late acquired malapposition (LAMP); and MP and MP, persistent malapposition. We compared the target lesion failure (TLF) rate after follow-up examination among 4 groups with Kaplan–Meier analysis. Results Median follow-up period was 469 (IQR 71–1416) days. follow-up OCT examination was performed at median 9 months (IQR 7.6–10.5). There were no significant differences in patient's and procedural characteristics among the 4 groups. TLF rate in LAMP group was 12.0% and Kaplan–Meier analysis showed no significant differences among the 4 groups in TLF rate. TLF-free suvival curves (Kaplan-Meier) Conclusion LAMP was observed by OCT at 6–12 months in 12.0% of lesions after 2G-DES implantation, which was not associated with TLF at 5 years.